Display stand



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Patented Sept. 1-1, 1928.

v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH EDWIN BURGESS, OF ASTORIA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE UNITEDSTATES PRINTING & LITHOGRAPH COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ACORPORATION OF OHIO.

Application filed October 1, 1927. Serial No. 223,367.

which also supports the back card, and an apertured reception card forholding the articles or containers, extending downwardly and forwardlyfrom the back card to the base card, all by preference out out and madeof one piece of cardboard and adapted to be folded fiat for convenienttransportation, sub stantially as hereinafter set forth.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I shall firstdescribe in detail the mode in which I at present prefer to carry theinvention into practiceand then particularly point out the invention andits various features in the claim.

Figure 1 is a perspective v1ew of a display stand embodying my inventionin use.

Figure 2 is a plan view showing the same folded flat for transportationand its construction.

In making the specific form of my invention here shown, I form a blank 3of a single roughly rectangular piece of cardboard having preferablyequal lateral extensions 4:, 4, on each side commencing near the upperedge and terminating a short distance from t e lower edge, the blankbeing scored or creased on the vertical lines 5-5 joining the extensionswith the body of the blank, and on the horizontal line 6-6, from thelower ends of the respective scores 5-5.

The blank is also cut on vertical lines 7 -7 spaced inside the lines5-5, commencing below the upper edge and terminating below the scored orcreased lines 6-6, and above the lower edge of the body of the blank.The blank is also scored orcreased on the horizontal line 8-8 connectingthe upper ends of the respective cut vertical lines 7-7, on thehorizontal line 9-9, connecting the lower ends of the cut lines 7-7, andon the horizontal line 10-10, above and parallel to the line 9-9.

- The body of the blank is also cutout within the lines 7-7, 8-8 and10-10 to form apertures 11 fitted to receive the articles to DISPLAYSTAND.

be displayed or their containers, and above the horizontal line 8-8, andalso if desired, outside the vertical lines 7-7, may appear thedirections, announcement or other advertisement. of the articledisplayed as well as of its producer and/or distributor.

The completed blank thus formed is as shown in Figure 2 in flat form forconvenient p-acking and transportation. lVhen desired for use the blankis bent or folded, as shown in Figure 1, rearwardly at right angles onthe vertical lines 5-5, to formv wings for upholding the'. back of thedisplay, forwardly or outwardly along the horizontal lines 6-6, 8-8 and9-9, and rearwardly along the line [0-10. In this position the portionof the blank between thelines 6-6 and the lower edge of the blank is atright angles to the back and forms a sustaining base thereof to restupon a counter or other support.

The out out rectangular portion between the lines 9-9 and 10-10, restsupon the corresponding rectangular. portion of the base between the line9-9 and the front edge of the base, as an upper or additional base, andthe apertured cut out portion between the lines 8-8 and 10-10 extendsdownwardly and forwardly from the line 8-8 to the forward edge of theuper and lower base, so

as conveniently and e ectively to receive and display the articles ortheir containers as shown. I

TlllS construction makes an exceptionally It is evident that the detailsof the specific embodiment of my invention herein shown and describedmay be greatly varied without departing from the boundaries of myinvention as defined by the following claim.

... I claim as my invention:

A display stand formed of a single sheet cut in parallel vertical linesspaced from the sides and substantially parallel therewith,

and said vertical cut lines terminating at the same distance from. thetop and bottom respectively of the sheet and connected at their upperends, at their lower ends and between their upper and lower ends byfoldable transverse lines parallel toeach other, and the portions of thesheet outside said vertical cut lines being formed with transversefoldable lines in the same line, between and parallel to the upper andlower foldable lines of the medial cut out portion, so that when theside portions are bent on their transverse foldable lines, the upperportions thereof will stand upri ht and the lower portions thereof willlie in t e horizontal plane andthe medial cutout portion when bent onits upper, lower, and medial transverse lines will extend on aninclination from its upper transverse line to its medial transverseline, and the lower part of the out out portion, between its medial and10 lower transverse lines, will rest upon the lower part of the sheetbelow said lower foldable line. i

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JOSEPH EDWIN BURGESS.

